By DAN GATES
The Green Homes Grant Voucher scheme is now officially launched. If you are homeowner (including landlords) in England you can get up to £5000 per installation to pay part of the costs of energy efficiency and renewable heating improvements. This is doubled to £10k for low income households.
The main page is here:
The scheme is done by vouchers which are issued to your installer.
The householder eligibility checker is here:
https://www.gov.uk/check-eligible-green-homes-grant
You must use a Trustmark registered Installer: https://www.trustmark.org.uk/find-a-tradesperson
To be eligible, you must add at least one primary measure from this list:
- solid wall insulation
- under floor insulation
- cavity wall insulation
- loft insulation
- flat or pitched roof insulation
- room in roof insulation
- insulating a park home
- air source, ground source or hybrid heat pump
- solar thermal
- biomass boilers
After that primary measure you can have additional energy saving measures (like heating controls or window improvements).
The primary measure is capped at £5k and secondary measure is capped at same level as primary- so if your primary measure is £1k your secondary measure is £1k. The scheme will only pay out 2/3 of the cost of the works.
Example
Measure | Insulation under floors | Solar thermal | Air source heat pump |
Installer quote | 1000 | 5000 | 11000 |
Homeowner Grant | 666 | 3333 | 5000 |
Homeowner pays | 333 | 1667 | 6000 |
Homeowner with benefits grant | 1000 | 5000 | 10000 |
Homeowner with benefits pays | 0 | 0 | 1000 |
After the grant the homeowner can still apply for the renewable heat incentive- the total RHI payment will be adjusted to take into account the grant already received.
Applications for the Green Homes Grant Scheme are available now
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/apply-for-the-green-homes-grant-scheme
How can Luths help?
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